Improvement in devices for preparing beef-steak for broiling



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WILLIAM A. CLARK, CF..WOCDBRIDGE, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No.'113,260, dated VApril 4, 1871.

' iMPRovEMi-:NT IN Devices Fon PREPARING BEEF-STEAK FoR enclume.

TheScheduJe referred to in these Letters Patent and making parl: of thesame..

To all whom it may concern Beit knownthat 1,W1LLIAMA. CLARK, ofWoodbridge, in the county of New Haven and State of Con-4 necticut, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for PreparingBeef-Steaks `or other Meats for Broiling or Cooking; and that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specication,in whichl Figure l represents in perspective a hand-machine constructedafter my invention.

` Figure 2 represents a section through the same.`

Figure 3 representssthe same invention as applied to a revolving head orcylinder.

Similar' letters of reference, Where they occur in the separate gures,denote like parts ofthe instrument or machine in the drawing.

My invention consists in combining with a' series of puncturing, abrading, or piercing instruments, for penetrating or bruising the meat, aspring-clearing device that forces the meat from the penetratinginstruments as they are withdrawn from `Vit,'and so prevents it fromadhering to said instruments.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe the same with reference to the drawing.

A, figs. 1 and 2, represents a metallic head, to which is clamped orotherwise secured the side plates a a,l which have teeth b b, Ste., uponthem. I have shown the platesva a. as secured to the head A by means' ofoutside plates, d d, and through rivets or screws, c c c, which makes astrong and neat connection. Other ways of holding the puncturinginstruments to the head or stock of the machine may be used.

'loy this head is connected side bars B B, united by a handle, C, bywhich this machine is used.

Between: the puncturing-teeth or instrumentsthere is a bar, e, which isbent up at its ends, and said bent ends pass through lugs ff, in whichthey are guided.

Around these bent ends of the bar arecniled springs g, which' force thebar e out to, or nearly to, the edges of the puncturers b. Other thancoiled springs may be used 'just as readily, and instead of one head andone set of puncturers and clearers there may be two or more sets unitedto the same handle C.

When the meat to be prepared is struck with this instrument the pointsor edges b penetrate the same. When the instrument is raised up torepeat the blow the bar e is forced against the meat by the reactionpfthe springs g, and thus prevents it from adhering to the-instrument orfollowing it. l

In fig. 3 the same invention, exactly, is shown as applied to acylinder, which, instead of being raised up and then brought down uponthe meat like that .shown in tlg. l, may be rolled over the meat andperform the same duty. 0r ythis series or sets of lpuncturers andclearers, so arranged upon a cylinder, may

be revolved in suitable fixed bearings by a erankpr gearing, and tbesteak or other piece of meat to be made tender by abrasion of its ber4may pass lalong under the' said series or cylinder as it is revolved.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Lett-ers Patent,is-

In a machine for treating or preparing heef-steaks or other meatsv forbroiling or cooking, the combined use of, or combination of, the seriesoi' puncturing or abrading-teeth b, the spring-clearer e, for preventingthe meat from adhering to or following said teeth, and whether arrangedto reciprocate or rotate, substantially as herein described andrepresented.

' i WM. A. CLARK..v

Witnesses:

A. B. SroUGH'roN, EDMUND Masson.

